workhorse_01
Well-Known Member
My first years here with a garden I dug a hole like you said, then last year I took my tractor and dug a canal at the lowest point and added the soil from the canal to the garden effectively raising it 6-8" that worked great last year, but this year we've had more rain than we've had any year since we moved here 9 yrs. ago. It just keeps coming. I'd be ok if it would skip another week. Just no more 4 day rains all day and all night.
Webmost
This is a prime example of digging a pond . I have seen where a lot of people want to dig a hole in their yard and put tobacco in it . Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't . It is the soil and drainage .If the soil doesn't drain then it would be just like a bucket filling up with no where to go . Under your soil there is a layer that is called a hard pan .Depth to a hard pan varies .
We use a subsoiler It fits on the back of a tractor to bust up the hard pan layer . After a couple of years we have to go back and subsoil again . The hard pan will harden back over .
I also use tile like Michibacy said , to drain fields that are more wet than others . But there is some soil that will not drain no matter how you try and drain it .